Curiously, Scott the ‘national anarchist’ (sic) has thrown his puny weight behind the campaign, attending a rally against fluoridation on June 13, and remarking that: “Overall, the rally was a success and the fight goes on. The BAFF group and its supporters have made clear that the date fluoridation commences is not the end of the campaign, it is the date the fight rams [sic] up a level and goes on stronger than ever before! We will be there till the end, for our freedom to choose and the health of our future generations.”
Sieg Heil!
This article [mathaba.net/news/?x=620688] was published on the nutty mathaba site — see : mathaba.net : last words, May 1, 2008 — the publishers of which, in collaboration with local nutzis belonging to the New Right/’national anarchists’ — attempted to bring down my blog last year.
Unsuccessfully, obviously.
Scott’s most recent foray into the world of student politics was sponsored by Donna Yan and Bonita Silva of Vertigo, the student zine of the University of Technology Sydney. See : National Anarchism (Again) (May 30, 2009) and A is for Anarchy. B is for Bullshit. (May 24, 2009).
Anti-fluoride extremists have threatened to kill a Victorian government minister and blow up a regional water authority.
As anger over fluoridating Geelong’s water supply mounted today, Labor minister Lisa Neville has been targeted along with water and health officials.
A death threat was left with a bottle of water on the verandah of Ms Neville’s house on Saturday night, a government spokeswoman said.
Anti-fluoride activists have also threatened to blow up Barwon Water’s treatment plants as the authority begins on Monday adding fluoride to the water supply in Geelong, 70 kilometres southwest of Melbourne.
The Department of Human Services (DHS) received a threatening letter in the mail last week.
All three threats are being investigated by police.
A government spokeswoman said Ms Neville, who is the member for Bellarine, returned home on Saturday night to find the bottle of water and a note on her front verandah.
A blog called ‘Iran in the Gulf’ has provided translations of Khiaban (‘The Street’) newspaper, which is apparently circulating among oppositional elements. “Long live popular sovereignty! Long live resistance to the Coup D’état! Death to dictatorship!”
In the meantime, the dictatorship seems to be managing to bring death to the ‘resistance’:
“At 19:05 on June 20 on Karekar Avenue, at the corner crossing Khosravi and Salehi Streets, a young woman who was standing beside her father watching the protests was shot by a basij member hiding on the rooftop of a civilian house… I am a doctor, so I rushed to try to save her. But the impact of the gunshot was so fierce that… she died in less than 2 minutes. The protests were going on about 1 kilometer away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gas… towards Salehi Street.”
Also on that subject, Henry McDonald (The Observer, June 21, 2009) quotes a nice poem written by someone associated with nutzi groupuscule ‘Combat 18’:
“Romanian gypsies beware beware
Loyalist C18 are coming to beat you like a baiting bear
Stay out of South Belfast and stay out of sight
And then youse will be alright
Get the boat and don’t come back
There is no black in the Union Jack
Loyalist C18 ‘whatever it takes’.”
…Although those behind this latest outbreak of racist violence are not being directed by any loyalist paramilitary group, their actions last week took the world’s focus away from what is a positive, developing story within Ulster loyalism… [that is, the de-commissioning of arms].
The fear within the loyalist paramilitary leaderships is that, as they leave the scene, a vacuum within their communities could be filled by the far right.
“We have a job on our hands now persuading an entire generation that grew up looking up to men who took up arms for the loyalist cause that violence is not the answer,” one senior UDA member told the Observer yesterday. “I don’t believe this gang behind these latest attacks are that well organised, but the danger from now on is that these teenagers and young people could be manipulated and used by these neo-Nazi groups who are trying to organise in Ulster.”
Taking time off from negotiations with the British government about moves by the UDA to disarm, the loyalist leader said he believed the gang were “copycat racists” who were adopting Combat 18’s name to instil fear into the immigrant community. “They [the BNP, UBPP and other neo-Nazi parties] have been stirring things up at time when the loyalist groups are trying to transform our communities,” he added…
On the other hand, the British far right has almost invariably supported Loyalism, including Loyalist paramilitaries. With regards C18 (and Charlie Sargent), the link is particularly strong between it and UDA/UFF and the ‘Loyalist Volunteer Force’ (and Johnny Adair).
C18 has a tiny presence here in Australia, and was until very recently promoting itself by way of terrormachine.net. This now appears to have been taken down. Before it was, it claimed to have the heartfelt support of local nutzi bands ‘Indigenous Hate’ and ‘Southern Storm’. Sadly, Southern Storm’s pop hit ‘We’re Southern Storm’ (“Niggers Jews and Communists / Look out scum you’re on our list!”) is no longer available for your viewing pleasure on YouTube, and neither, even more sadly, is the musical powerhaus known as Indigenous Hate. On the bright side — and speaking of hatred for Australia’s indigenous peoples — ‘Oh No Here Comes An Abo’ continues to Master Race up the YouTube charts:
Note that vocalist Jesse and scores of his short-haired mates will be prancing on stage in Melbourne on September 12, and “Abos” are definitely not welcome to join them.
As for terrormachine.net, the site was most recently registered to a Perth bloke named ‘Jake’. ‘Jake’, oddly enough, was also responsible for ensuring that ashes belonging to US nutzi criminal David Lane were scattered in Perth: seenutzis are W E I R D : David Lane’s Ashes (February 13, 2009).
* For some reason, and I’m not entirely sure why, the last line of the final poem has been rejected by YouTube / my technical incompetence has ensured it was not uploaded. In any case, it is: “I will give them food”.
Thus, two fuckwitted lowlife bums in the US, Hugh Farrell and Gina “Tiga” Wertz, have been arrested and charged with racketeering — under RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) laws originally introduced in 1970 ostensibly in order to target criminal associations such as The Mafia — for allegedly “conspiring” to engage in tree sits, participate in non-violent civil disobedience, and make an inflammatory blog post against the I-69 NAFTA superhighway. Worse yet, Hugh Farrell “has been observed advocating literature and materials which advocate anarchy, property destruction and violence, including Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching [and] Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook.”
Decent, law-abiding, tax- mortgage- and rent-paying citizens everywhere agree that these books should be burned, not read. Sadly, such dangerous texts are also available in Australia. (Recipes, for example, which shouldn’t be but often is confused with the tract The Anarchist Cookbook — and one zillion versions thereof — may be purchased from Barricade infoshop or viaBeating Hearts distro.)
Obviously, if you were a punk rock music fanboy, you might react by way of stating “No offence but honestly who gives a shit about some fuckwitted lowlife bums in the US?”; or possibly by suggesting that if one cares about US state repression, the only logical conclusion is to immediately apply for a Green Card.
Be that as it may, as observed by the editors of The Sun in 1990, THE ANARCHISTS are out to disrupt public order by manipulating people with genuine grievances — they are parasitical wreckers who hijack rallies. Anarchism is, “by definition, imported. The immigration authorities should find out whether any of its adherents who are not Australian born are, through their actions, in breach of the permits under which they remain here. If so, let’s send them home. They are not welcome!”
These sentiments were echoed sixteen years later by leading Australian Marxist theoretician Mick Armstrong who, with an eagle-eye for detail, remarked that ‘THE ANARCHISTS’ who attended the protest rally against the G20 were crazy, ultra-violent and silly, “they simply exploited the demo for their own purposes”, and during preparations for protest at the summit were hostile towards and contemptuous of others. On The Big Day itself, “they did all they could to disrupt the demonstration and were hostile, abusive, threatening and ultra-sectarian”.
With similar political acuity, Mick notes that what gave these scum “a certain critical mass… was the presence of considerable numbers of anarchists from overseas”. Worse yet: “one of our members from New Zealand said he recognised at least 40 NZ anarchists” and “at least 20 of them by name”. Worst of all perhaps, there “were also a considerable number of black bloc anarchists from Europe… people from Sweden, Germany and England. These people are like football hooligans who travel the world looking for violence.”
This desperate search for masses of people to manipulate into performing outrageous acts of violence has been the stock-in-trade of anarchist scum since at least the late 1800s, evidence for which is readily available in bourgeois media reportage, police intelligence briefings, and the ideological pronouncements of the leadership of Socialist Alternative.
As for what might be the best response to these foreign scum stirring up trouble, the courts — thankfully — decide to gaol Akin Sari for 28 months. In an earlier era, he may well have been hanged (and judging by the enormous danger the presence of anarchists in any city has to the maintenance of law and order, perhaps should have been). Mick Armstrong, on the other hand — being a theoretician with many years of experience in the student movement — opts for a more liberal approach: “The left should offer no comfort to these crazies. We should do whatever we can to isolate them. They are wreckers.”
For those of you who are crazy or stupid enough not to take Mick’s advice, please note that on Friday, June 26 from 7.30pm you can enjoy a “Trivia Fun Night With Friends!” @ the Princes’ Park Bowling Club in Carlton. The organisers have promised not to subject those in attendance to ultra-violence, but do point out that those with delicate constitutions are warned that individuals born in places other than Australia may well be present at some point during the evening.
Note that, in an attempt to dissuade their colleagues at the University of Melbourne from attending the Trivia Night, the SAlt Film Unit have produced the following short documentary based on their recollections of the carnage enacted on the streets of Melbourne in November 2006, as foreign anarchists attacked SAlt paper sellers and invaded their parents’ tastefully-decorated apartments:
Final confirmation of the innate wickedness of anarchism and anarchists is revealed through an examination of the origins of May Day, where anarchists once again revealed their violent nature, and the ugly manner in which this violence is deployed against legitimate businessman and the police — with disastrous consequences for the contemporary student left and its ability to chant slogans and sell newspapers to other students in peace and quiet.
Haymarket Martyrs–Origins of International Workers Day Pt 1
Haymarket Martyrs–Origins of International Workers Day Pt 2
The Chicago Times called the workers “ragtag and bob-tailed cuthroats of Beelzebub from the Rhine, the Danube, the Vistula and the Elba”. Labour’s largest paper called them “wild beasts”. The respected Albany Law Review called them “long-haired, wild-eyed, bad-smelling, atheistic, reckless foreign wretches”.
Haymarket Martyrs–Origins of International Workers Day Pt 3
See also : Great Expectations… (May 4, 2009) | Haymarket: A Novel by Martin Duberman (Seven Stories, 2003). A novelisation by a US labour historian of The Haymarket Affair (1886), a torrid period in US history what gave birth to the modern May Day, an occasion the significance of which persists despite over 120 years of denial and historical revisionism. In addition to providing an account of the class war in late nineteenth century Chicago, Martin, moreover, imagines the lives of two of its key players: Albert Parsons and Lucy Gonzalez (Lucy Parsons).
Historical note:
…in December 1879, when thousands of Exodusters were making their way overland from Texas to Kansas, the Socialist Labour Party, of which [Frederick A. Sorge, Marx’s friend and correspondent and National Labour Union activist] was a chief founder, held its national convention in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Albert Parsons, himself a Texan driven out for his equalitarian views, introduced a resolution “concerning land grants”. The whole country by that time was aware of the Exodus, but the records do not show whether Parsons made any mention of it in his talk and resolution. In any case, the convention as a whole ignored it; the resolution was referred to the Committee on Platforms and is not heard of again.
The South Revisits the Problem of Social Control
I have noted how the Protestant tenants, their exclusive Ulster Custom tenant-right eroded by structural economic changes and drained by reduction of the size of their holdings, indicated for a brief period a readiness to make common cause with the Catholic peasants to secure the legal enactment of a tenant-right law for all Ireland. Radical Reconstruction had likewise shown that there were some Southern whites who were ready to make common cause with the black population to establish a society based on racial equality of constitutional rights.
They dared, and some died as John Brown had done, struggling side-by-side with African-American freedom fighters for their common cause, the end of racial oppression. They are not so well known as they should be; here is a selected list of ten of them:
• A. P. Dostie, described by one historian as “animated by a fanatical ambition to subdue rebels and elevate slaves” (Shugg, Class Struggle in Louisiana, p.217), killed in a mob attack on the New Orleans Black and White Convention in July 1866; his dying words: “Let the good fight go on!” (Proceedings of the Southern Loyalist Convention, September 1866, printed in the Reporter, no.33, Washington, DC, 17 September 1866).
• Calvin Pepper of Virginia, the only white person on the delegation which Fredrick Douglass led to present a petition to the President on behalf of Negro suffrage (Black, Home-made Yankees, p.189. John Richard Dennett, The South As It Is, 1865–1866 [New York, 1866], pp.6–7).
• James W. Hunnicutt of Virginia, who “campaigned vigorously against the vagrancy laws, for racial equality, and against voting and office-holding by ‘rebels'” (Black, p.250, citing Union League Club of New York, Aid for Virginia [New York, 1867]).
• George W. Ashburn of Georgia, murdered “for consorting with Negroes” (Black, p.30).
• J. W. Smith, of Texas, killed for “organizing Negroes” (ibid.).
• Thomas J. Mackey of South Carolina, “one of the few white men to attend the state labor convention in Columbia in 1869” (ibid., p.34).
• William Wallace Chisolm and John P. Gilmer, killed in Mississippi in 1877 in order that “confidence [be] restored between the races” (James D. Lynch, Kemper County Vindicated: A Peep at Radical Rule in Mississippi [New York, 1879], p.319).
• Alexander Boyd, murdered in Eutaw, Alabama, “for too earnest enquiries into outrages committed against freedmen” (Black, pp.47–8, citing the Greensboro, North CarolinaRepublican, 28 April 1870).
• John Walter Stephens of North Carolina, poor farmer, uncompromising activist in the struggle against white supremacy, whose lynching and the manner of it are described in Chapter 30 of Albion W. Tourgée’s novel A Fool’s Errand (1879; New York, 1961).
The ruling class strangled Reconstruction by sheer terror, but they could not forget the time when the impossible happened and a part of the European-American population arrayed itself against white supremacy. The consensus is that the proportion of this defection from this white-race function was insignificant. If it was so insignificant why the reign of terror against it? Was the terror not simply a new edition of the gag rules, the tar and feathers, and the interdiction of abolitionist mail that had been produced by the fears of abolitionism in the South in the pre-war decades? And, in the end, had not those forebodings proved valid? Given the decision to continue the system of racial oppression, given the self-limiting advantages of rule by mere terrorism, given the dilemma-dictated reliance on African-American labor, given the constitutional leverage, actual or potential, now in the hands of the African-Americans — the matter of the intermediate stratum remained in urgent need of attention.
~ Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race: Volume One, ‘Racial Oppression and Social Control’, Verso, 1994, pp.150–151.
AUSTRALIA has very few anarcho-capitalist [sic] bloggers like Paul Staines of Guido Falkes [sic] fame, reformed raver libertarians with an eye for scandal (and another on the latest market moves).
And we have no political bloggers who break stories. What we have on our political blogs is analysis. And talk. Endless talk.
Some are sharp. Sometimes. Others are the online equivalent of soapbox speakers. Then there is the group that provides the cyberworld’s answer to the sad sacks you see on the street holding intense conversations with no one in particular.
And there is one final type of political blog: the online shit-sheet, the internet equivalent of the anonymous lies, smears and distortions that get peddled in the parties, particularly the ALP and particularly at pre-selection time.
Australia’s most notorious practitioner of this blogging is a Melburnian with impeccable links to the local ruling right, John Brumby’s Unity faction.
Rumour says powerful Labor figures keep him going, but everyone concerned has plausible deniability — for now.
If someone wants to claim the first scalp of the Australian political blogosphere, perhaps they should dig deeper.
Where to begin?
At the start I guess.
1. Paul Staines of Guido Falkes [sic] fame
I’m not surprised Christian The Christian champions Paul Staines. After all, they have a lot in common, having both carved out careers as Tories-for-hire, relied upon their fellow Tories for leaks to ‘break’ stories, and consumed illegal drugs (how naughty!): cocaine/ecstasy in the case of Christian the Christian, XTC/LSD/MDMA in the case of Mister Staines. Both champion self-interest, and appear to base their views on a dull form of ‘libertarianism’ (most familiar to a North American audience), one made famous by its espousal by philosophes such as von Hayek, Friedman, and Cartman.
A confession: I’d never heard of Mumble, and have read the other blogs on only a handful of occasions. The first three listed concentrate on examining the entrails of the members of The Johns Party; Club Troppo defines itself as expressing “Politics, economics, law and life from a ‘radical centrist’ perspective, defined by Noel Pearson as “the intense resolution of the tensions between opposing principles” — to which I can only reply ‘What-ever‘ — and its disco on ‘politics’, law and ‘life’ reads very much like such things do when interpreted by a commerce studies graduate (the kind best avoided at parties); Catallaxy is startlingly similar. The dull earnestness of both is… well… dull.
3. one final type of political blog: the online shit-sheet
Which, though Christian The Christian fails to name it, is rather obviously a reference to Andrew Landeryou’s ‘THE OTHER CHEEK’, now known as ‘vexnews’. Famous for his legal battles with businessman Solomon Lew and involvement in the scandal which destroyed the Melbourne University Student Union, Landeryou comes from pedigree Labor stock — Daddy was a Victorian State Government Minister — and uses his blog to attack factional rivals in the ALP. Several years ago (May 23, 2006), he was declared a bankrupt — which, as it happens, appears to have been a fate shared by Paul Staines of Guido Falkes [sic] fame.
Come to think of it, Landeryou’s Blog(s) of Freedom really isn’t that far removed from Paul Staine’s Guido. (Falkes.)
…Talking of home and coaches, tonight’s game will be a chance to celebrate a remarkable career. If Mick Malthouse was an American coach he would be even more revered and exulted. Whilst the American coaches are still accountable for the performances of the team and the programs they oversee, they are always respected. It’s a pity we don’t do the same.
Over the course of 600 games at the helm of three separate clubs, Mick has coached many successful teams. More to the point he has developed and moulded many successful people in the process. The best, most enjoyable years of my playing career were under his charge and I learned a lot about the game as his captain. His longevity in the game is testament to his passion, strength of character, self belief and durability in an environment that has become increasingly cut-throat. I’ve nothing but admiration for what he has achieved in his 38 years in the game.
I know how much stock he places on history and he would have been fascinated walking around Notre Dame, learning of their origins and soaking up how and why they have become what they have.
On his own, Mick has become an institution of our game and like Notre Dame he has been a success over a long period of time because of his commitment to excellence.
Ha! I found the flyer too: Tiddas (‘Sisters’) played a benefit gig for the ‘International Workers’ Club’ on July 19 in like, (1991? 2? 3?) @ The Fringe Studio (First floor, 184 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy) alongside of Al Andalus, Frog and SabCats.
A US jury has ordered a 32-year-old woman to pay $US1.92 million ($A2.4 million) in damages for illegally downloading 24 songs in a high-profile digital piracy case.
Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of four from the US state of Minnesota, was found liable for using the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing network to download the songs over the internet.
The jury took just under five hours to reach its verdict…
The move away from litigation represented a major shift in strategy for the music industry group, which had filed lawsuits against some 35,000 people for online music piracy since 2003.
Two Greek anarchists are making molotov cocktails. One says to the other: "So who will we throw these at then?" The other replies: "What are you, some kind of fucking intellectual?"
